Lathing buildings



UNITED entras 4Parnnroirrion B. F. GOIJD, OF NEW HAVEN, t, CONNECTICUT.

LATHING BUILDINGS.

specification of Letters Patent No. 11,423, dated Augsf 1, 1854.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be `it known that I, B. F. GOLD, of New Haven, in the co-unty of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a 'new and Improved Mode of Lathing Prepara-` tory to Plastering; and I `do hereby declare 1 that the following is a full and exact clescription thereof, :reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters? l they are made to `touch and press, against of reference marked thereon.

`The nature of my invention consists 1n `providing ayframe of a capacity andconf struction suitable to receive and apply, to1 a wall or ceiling, a break of lath at once;

and, in connection `with the frame, to make any required and equal spaces between the lath, `by means of spacing-pins, placed on rods, or, in Jthe grooves of rods or ways, so that the spaces may be made larger or smaller by either turning the` rods or ways, on a pivot, the `length of pins standing crosswise of rods, `or, by turning the pins,

3 mencing lg below the top, and curve outonly, by arms atlixed to them.

To enabled others skilled in theart to make and use my invention, I will proceed` p 1 of the frame, that they, andthe lath, may

to describe its construction and operation.

Section 1:,To cover all spaces on a wally down to a foot in width, I make and use` three frames, whichmaybe made of wood or iron. If made of wood the slats composing the frame, should have their edges, orl greatest depth, presented toward the` lath,l

that the weight of a 'rameful of lath, may not bend theframe. Wrought-iron rods, -G- inch square, are better than wood, as security against breaking, andbest adapted for use. The frame designed for lath 4 feet long` need be but about 30 inches long, allowing the lath to project ateach end 9 inches. The` width of frames, should be about two feet, or rather `their height, as

The 2nd, or i middle sized frame, need be but 20 inches, for lath 32 inches long.

that designed for lath from 12 to 20 inches they are applied to the wall.

The 3rd size, or

long, will be but 10 inches.

Sec. 2: The various frames `must be of equal height or width. This will insure a level of each break. `'Ihe stationary pins P, I), Figure l, make equal spaces between breaks, which are separated by them, and, against which, the lath are spread to II, H, the gages. To commence lathing, I iirst nail a lath at the floor or base of the wall, that the points of the binder I at` K, or a button at rear of the `frame, in the same the gagesII, H, and equally against the tops or juts of thepins, or,tagainst the `pins below the juts. This will hold` them to the frame` without a binder, or, the binder, I, Fig. l. To prevent pinching, a reverse motion of the arms or rods must he made, to take the frame from the wall. `The pins for making spaces may be crosswise of the rods and shortest, when turned by arms. Their thickness, may be about g inch eX- cept at the top or juts, `where they should jut about 31g inch each side, gradually, cornwardto the top. The gages,are always to be placed at equaldistances fromthe `:trent be kept level. The gages I-I, I-I, should be inch thick, and should rise as high as the top of the lath, when placed on the frame. The number and `width of breaks, which may ,be put upon a wall, or ceiling, should be ascertained, before commencing lathing, that the gages I-I, I-I, which govern the width of breaks, may not be moved while lathing any given space.

Section 3,: The sustainer,`letter K, at each end of the same, Fig. 1, turns on a pivot or bolt at the centerof the cross-piece Z9. The cutters L, L, are placed in slots of the swivel `M, that they may cut and hold t-o studs or joist, which are atv unequal distances apart; as 'thecutters are moved nearer together, or, `farther apart, and fastened by thumb screws T, TFig. l. The swivelM, `turnson a pivot atthe front end of sustainer. The cutters` are steel, the swivel, malleableiron; that a lip may be cast each side of the cutters. Cutters should reachthe studs when the swivel stands obliquely, so that a blow of t-he lat-hing hatchet at one end of swivel, will drive the cutters easily into studsor joist, the end of cutters being thin and rounding. The cutters in this manner, hold the front of the frame to the wall. On the opposite side or rear of the Jframe, a pin in binder` I is made to enter a holein sustainer ,v place of their fulcrums or pivots.

K, and the branches of the binder to pass each side of it, and back of the lath, holding that side to the wall. A pin in the front end of the binder, is by a spiral spring, in like manner, thrown under staple S, to bind the lath to the frame. To remove the frame from the wall, (the lath having been nailed to the wall in t-he usual way,) the thumbpiece m, Fig. l, is made to press back the pin, and the binder is liberated and t-he frame taken from the walls after removing the cutters by a blow of the hatchet.

Section 4: In Fig. l, the arms n, n, are riveted to the spacing pins, below the slide j, through which they pass, and move with the pins, in the'grooves of the rods. The arms are turned by the grooved rods E, E, the ends of the arms entering the grooves. To turn the spacing pins,the` rods E, E, are drawn toward the front of the frame by thumbpieces m, Fig. 1, but, they may be moved more easily, by a lever on the top of the frame at 2,2,which might be the pivots, the lever and rod to be connected by a coupling link. It will be seen, that levers, must turn inward or outward, according to t-he This is not in the drawings, as a suggestion was deemed sufficient.

y Fig. l', (Z, d, represent the grooved rods, in which the slides are made to move with the pins. g, g, are o'uards, (in which are slots, for gages H, H, used as protection of the arms, and bottom of the pins. lThey sustain the arms at their ends, and hold them in their grooves. They may be of sheet brass, iron, or of wood. The end pieces It, It, of the frame, are detached at a, a, to shorten the frame, instead of using a shorter frame.

In Fig. 4, the arm, is secured to one end of the pin, that a slip of brass or tin, may bel soldered to the lower side of grooved rods, to hold them in their places firmly, al-

lowing the slides to move in the grooves rabove the slips, without obstruction; and,

p having 2 legs and 2 arms, an arm anda leg hinged together, and placed 3 feet apart, connected, by suitable girts and braces, arms 2O inches long, and legs 22 inches. The legs standing perpendicular, and arms hori- Zontal, that the ymay be fastened to studs, by means of hooks or dogs which may slide on a wire, extending from arm to arm, and fastened to them one inch from theirends. A girt of wood should be secured to the top, and even with the ends of arms, so as to touch against the studs, and rest upon the dogs when they are fastened, the points of dogs facing each other as they enter the studs.

There should be a gage of wood at either end of the lling frame, that the ends of lath may be even, as the lathing frame is placed on the filling frame to be filled. This gage, against which the ends of lath are made to touch, should be about 2 feet long, and one inch and a half wide, or, that height above the arms of the filling frame.

The hinges, uniting the arms and legs, make it easily portable. One of this description I have used some months since, and found it a useful and essential appendage.

There should be 12 spacing-pins on slides, which move in grooved rods, at each end of the frame, which will make the number proper for a break of lath. The gages H, H, Fig. l, may be placed at such distance from the front of the frame, as a break of lath may require. The mode of making the spaces between lath is, by turning the pins obliquely across the rods, by arms, as in Fig. 1.

That I claim as my invention, as new in application, and for which I desire to secure Letters Patent, arel. The mode of making spaces between lath by turning spacing-pins, which are attached to slides, as specified, the mode of turning being by arms n, n, Fig. l.

2. Stationary spacing pins as I), I), Fig. l, to make equal spaces between breaks of lath, and, as a permanent footing against which, lath are spread to touch the gages H, H, Fig. l. The spacingpins are on the rear of the frames.

8. The gages H, H, Fig. 1, which are placed in front of any required number of lath, and, are requisite to control the width offbreaks, the spaces between lath, and, to keep them level.

B. F. GOLD.

Witnesses: HENRY PEGK, I. DARRIE, Jr. 

